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Based on their female, sometimes warlike, appearance and role in a person's fate, a link has been proposed with valkyries. The transfer of hamingja to a newborn is sometimes associated with them being named after the deceased. [5] Vörðr - a warden spirit, believed to follow every person from birth to death as part of, or companion to, their ...
Old Norse draugr is defined by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and Richard Cleasby as "a ghost, spirit, esp. the dead inhabitant of a cairn". [4] Often the draugr is regarded not so much as a ghost but a revenant, [5] i.e., the reanimated corpse of the deceased inside the burial mound [6] (as in the example of Kárr inn gamli in Grettis saga).
On the seventh day after the person had died, people celebrated the sjaund (the word both for the funeral ale and the feast, since it involved a ritual drinking). The funeral ale was a way of socially demarcating the case of death. It was only after drinking the funeral ale that the heirs could rightfully claim their inheritance. [8]
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Ragnarsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug . [ 1 ]
The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
Thomas Vinterberg's daughter, who was to play a role in his film, was killed in a car accident. His star, Mads Mikkelsen, helped him return to the shoot.
After the death of King Ivar Vidfamne, Aud's eldest son by the Danish king Hrœrekr Ringslinger, Harald, conquered all of his grandfather's territory and became known as Harald Wartooth. Harald's nephew Sigurd Ring became the chief king of Sweden after Randver's death (Denmark according to the Hervarar saga), presumably as the subking of Harald.
Harald himself converted to Catholicism after a peace agreement with the Holy Roman Emperor (either Otto I or II). [20] Adam of Bremen, writing 100 years after King Harald's death in "History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen", finished in 1076, describes Harald being forcibly converted by Otto I, after a defeat in battle. [21]